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Questions worth asking

Is it really free? What’s the catch?

Yes, and there isn’t one. The core — timer, projects, clients, rates, reports, exports — is free for a single user with no usage cap and no time limit. The Free Core page lists exactly what that covers.

Then how does it make money?

Right now, it doesn’t. WorkSnap is a side project built by one person, and running it is cheap because it’s deliberately small. Later, there will probably be a voluntary way to support it — closer to a patronage model than a subscription. If that happens, supporters will get a say in what gets built next. They will never get a feature that you don’t.

Why should I trust a free tool not to start charging?

Because free plans shrink when they compete with a paid plan, and there isn’t one here. That’s the structural answer, and it’s more reliable than a promise. The longer version is on the Free Core page.

Can I import my data from Clockify?

No. Two honest notes on this: Clockify’s CSV export is itself now a paid feature, so many people can’t get their data out without paying for at least a month — and if you stay on their free plan, your old entries are still visible there, just limited to 31 days per report.

Can I get my data out of WorkSnap?

All of it, any time, free — CSV, XLSX or PDF. That’s a permanent commitment, not a current feature.

Do you support teams?

No. One account is one person, and there won’t be team support — that’s out of scope by design, not a gap on the roadmap.

Why doesn’t this site ask me about cookies?

Because there’s nothing to ask about. Cookie banners exist to collect consent for third-party tracking, and WorkSnap doesn’t load any — no Google Analytics, no advertising pixels, no session recording, not even fonts from someone else’s CDN. Analytics run on our own Umami instance in the EU, without cookies and without personal identifiers. The only cookies WorkSnap sets keep you logged in and protect against CSRF. Your theme follows your device’s system preference and isn’t stored in a cookie at all. Those are necessary for the site to function, which under EU law doesn’t require consent. So the banner isn’t missing — it was never needed.

Do you sell my data or train AI on it?

No to both, permanently. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not as an “anonymised dataset”, and not as training material for any model. Your entries describe your clients’ work — some of it under NDA. The full picture is on What we do with your data.

Where is my data stored?

In the European Union — Google Cloud, region europe-west1 (Belgium).

What happens if you stop working on it?

You get 90 days’ notice and a working export the whole time. It’s a fair question to ask a one-person project and it deserves a specific answer rather than reassurance.

Is it open source?

No. The code is closed, mostly because maintaining a public project properly — issues, pull requests, discussions — is a commitment I can’t make alongside building the product. The trust that open source would buy is on the Free Core page instead: a dated public promise, a guaranteed export, and notice if it ever ends.

Does it work on my phone?

Yes, fully. It’s built mobile-first, in the browser — there’s no app to install.